Philip Sendak
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Philip Sendak (September 15, 1894 – June 14, 1970) was a children's literature author. He is the father of the author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and the children's author Jack Sendak.
He emigrated from Poland to United States in 1913.[1]
Sendak died at the age of 75.
Selected bibliography[]
- In Grandpa's House (1985) (illustrated by his son Maurice Sendak) ISBN 0-06-025462-9
References[]
- ^ Harold Pollins (1989). Hopeful Travellers: Jewish Migrants and Settlers in Nineteenth Century Britain. London Museum of Jewish Life. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-871447-02-6.
External links[]
Categories:
- American children's writers
- 1894 births
- 1970 deaths
- Maurice Sendak
- Polish emigrants to the United States
- 19th-century Polish Jews
- American children's writer stubs